The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her ...
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, Oct. 10 "for her intense poetic prose that ...
Working with Han, I experienced a writer who respected translation as its own process of writing,’ said translator Victoria ...
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who had anticipated that Han Kang would be awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in ...
The inspiration for the Korean author's book Human Acts stems from a devastating massacre in Gwangju over 40 years ago, but ...
THE awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Han Kang on Thursday stands as yet another validation of the outsize soft ...
Han’s win is also a triumph of South Korea’s fierce and resilient democracy. South Korea’s first Nobel laureate was Kim ...
The Swedish Academy lauded Han’s work for her “unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the ...
Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024—the first writer from South Korea to be awarded this prize. Yet, she has “declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the ...
Have you heard of the inventor of the knock-knock joke? They just won the no-bell prize! But what are the Nobel Prizes? The Nobel Prizes have been awarded to individuals since 1901 who have ...
Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. She was awarded for books, including “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts," that explore the ...